The highest institutes of science in Britain today joined the British provincial press in paying tribute to Prof. Einstein. Newspapers do not appear in London because of the press strike.
Prof. A. M. Low, president of the British Institute of Engineering Technology, said: “No tribute can be adequate. He was known as a great mathematician, but in fact his greatness lay in his general application of knowledge and his intellectual grasp of its future possibilities. His death is a great loss to science, and a greater loss to the world of a good and kindly man.”
Lord Adrian, president of the Royal Society, said Einstein would have been in the front rank of physicists even if he had never conceived the relativity theory. “His theory showed the relation between mass and energy, which has now become all too familiar to us as the basis of atomic explosions, “Lord Adrian said. “But he was rightly thought of as one of the great men of our times because he was ready to give his help in the cause of peace and the liberty of ideas. His help was badly needed just now.”
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